Stories
- Article
Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
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The Transvengers as foe of the paradigm of heteronormativity
Jason Barker writes about his experience of working with a group of young trans people and describes the process of developing the theory which underlies The Transvengers comic, and society, today.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions
McMichael, Sir John, FRCP, FRCPE, FRS (1904-1993) CardiologistDate: 1932-1995Reference: PP/JMM/EPart of: McMichael, Sir John (1904-1993)
- Books
- Online
Institutions of medicine.
Cullen, William, 1710-1790.Date: 1785- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions and organisations
Date: 1958-1968Reference: PP/MAC/BPart of: Macdonald, Professor George- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions
Date: 1824-1850Reference: MS.7847/31-32Part of: Gough Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions
Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)Date: 1948-c.1965Reference: PP/WWS/BPart of: Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)
